Walking in Berlin a flaneur in the capital Franz Hessel ; with an essay by Walter Benjamin ; translated by Amanda DeMarco
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press 2017Description: xi, 284 SeitenContent type:- Text
- ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
- Band
- 9780262036351
- Spazieren in Berlin engl
- Hessel, Franz 1880-1941 -- Travel -- Germany -- Berlin
- Walking -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century
- Historic buildings -- Germany -- Berlin
- Historic sites -- Germany -- Berlin
- Neighborhoods -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century
- City and town life -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century
- Social change -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century
- Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Berlin (Germany) -- Description and travel
- Berlin Collection
- Berlin
- 943/.155085 23
- 914.31550485 22/ger
- 914.3
- DD879
- GM 3677
- NR 6910
- GM 7651
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – Basement – Library Hallway | Berlin (Berlin section) | Berlin:DD879 .H4713 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2023-4722 |
"First Published in the United Kingdom by Scribe Publications, 2016."--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284)
"Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s. In Walking in Berlin, originally published in Germany in 1929, he captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording evidence of the seismic shifts shaking German culture at the time. Nearly all of the pieces take the form of a walk or outing, focusing either on a theme or part of the city, and many end at a theatre, cinema, or club. Hessel effortlessly weaves historical information into his observations, displaying his extensive knowledge of the city. Today, many years after the Nazi era and the postwar reconstruction that followed, the areas he visited are all still prominent and interesting. From the Alexanderplatz to Kreuzberg, his record of them has become priceless. Superbly written, and as fresh today as when it first appeared, this is a book to be savoured"--
Translator's Foreword -- The Flaneur's Return / by Walter Benjamin -- The Suspect -- I Learn a Thing or Two -- A Bit of Work -- Fashion -- Lust for Life -- A Tour -- The Animal Palaces -- Berlin's Boulevard -- The Old West -- Tiergarten -- The Landwehr Canal -- Kreuzberg -- Tempelhof -- Hasenheide -- Through Neukölln Toward Britz -- Steamship Music -- To the East -- The North -- The Northwest -- Friedrichstadt -- Dönhoffplatz -- The Newspaper District -- The Southwest -- Afterword
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